Photography Workshop… When I decided to attend the photography workshop I kept wondering what would be the outcome. Since it was only a two hour workshop I realized that it would be quite different from other workshops I had attended. When the 4 participants arrived we started the workshop with a brief introduction to photography,…
Hindi Theatre Street Performance Day One New Market As soon as we arrived at Simpark in New Market and began setting up the banners and props, the two security guards present came up to us and ordered us to seek permission before performing in that space. The Seagull representative who was with us argued that…
PeaceWorks facilitated a 3-day intensive workshop on peace-building and conflict resolution by ‘Play for Peace’ a global organisation that brings together children, youth and organisations from communities in conflict. Play for Peace is a process of community building. It is the creation of ongoing learning partnerships that teaches people to be leaders of peace. The…
STAGE 1: Group reading of a story and presentation Right at the outset, the students were divided into three groups and each group was given a story called ‘The Impossible Dream’. This story was accompanied by 11 questions, prompting the children to ponder over the issues raised. They were asked to relate the story to…
St Joseph’s College, Bowbazar, is a boys’ higher secondary school where we went for a workshop on Identity conducted by Sumeet Thakur as a part of the PeaceWorks School curriculum with boys from Class IX on the first day (4 February 2008) and Class XI on the second day (5 February 2008). We met the…
